Memoirs

Code: 018103
Zappa, Frenk
Nastoiashchaia Knizhka Frenka Zappy

[ Nastoiashchaia Knizhka Frenka Zappy : ]
Moscow: EKSMO, 2003
Language: Russian

Price: ~~$ 21.00~~
Special price: $ 17.00

The brash and outrageously funny autobiography of music legend Frank Zappa. Here is the real story of how he became the state of the art in weirdness, as only he can tell it: wild rock `n` roll road stories, confrontations with bureaucratic idiocy, and more.

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Code: 026677
Durylin, S.N., Genieva, E.V
Ia Nikomu Tak ne Pishu, Kak Vam..."
Perepiska S.N. Durylina i E.V. Genievoi
[ "I do not write to anyone, like to you..." : Correspondence of S.N. Durylin and E.V. Genieva ]
Moscow: Tsentr knigi Rudomino, 2010
Language: Russian

Price: $ 32.00

The book presents the correspondence of the philosopher, writer and theater activist, a priest and a political exile Sergei Durylin (1886-1954) and Elena Genieva (nee Kirsanova, 1891-1979) from December, 1925 to April, 1933.

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Code: 001474
Annenkov, Iu.P. (B. Temiriazev)
Povest` o Pustiakakh

[ A Story about trifles : ]
St. Petersburg: Izd-vo Ivana Limbakha, 2001
Language: Russian

Price: $ 29.00

This book is a splendid autobiographical description by the Russian emigre painter Iurii Annenkov (1889-1974) of the literary life of St. Petersburg at the end of 1910-1920s. This story was first published in Berlin in 1934.

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Code: 013206
Dmitriev, M. A. (Mikhail Aleksandrovich)
Glavy iz Vospominanii Moei Zhzini

[ Chapters from memories of my life : ]
Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 1998
Language: Russian

Price: $ 32.00

The literary life of Moscow in the 1820-1840s is the main subject of these memoirs of the Russian provincial nobleman Mikhail Dmitriev (1796-1866). The author portrays many legendary people of this time: P.

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Code: 017761
V Zashchitu Banal`nykh Istin

[ In defence of banal truth : ]
: Moskovskaia Shkola Politicheskikh Issledovanii, 2003
Language: Russian

Price: $ 37.00

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Code: 024530
Khazin, Mikhail
Evreiskoe Schast`e
Zapisi dlia Druzei
[ Jewish luck: Notes for friends : Zapisi dlia Druzei ]
Schuylkill Haven, PA: Hermitage Publishers, 2007
Language: Russian

Price: $ 19.00

This is a collection of works written after his emigration to the USA in 1995 by Mikhail Khazin, translator, literary critic and writer. 13 illustrations. Name index.

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Code: 019788
Babaev, Eduard
Eduard Babaev. Vospominaniia

[ Memoirs : ]
St. Petersburg: Inapress, 2000
Language: Russian

Price: $ 27.00

Eduard Babev (1927-1996), a philologist and historian of Russian literature, was in friendly relations with many outstanding writers and artists of the twentieth century. In her will Nadezhda Mandel`stam left him all her possessions, including copyright for her husband works.

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Code: 006011-11
Memuary Sibiriakov: XIX Vek

[ Memoirs of Siberians; 19th century : ]
Novosibirsk: Sibirskii Khronograf, 2003
Language: Russian

Price: $ 37.50

The eleventh volume of the series The History of Siberia: Original Sources includes four memoirs or autobiographical stories of Siberian citizens from various strata: writer and historian of Siberia V.

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Code: 017187
Amstislavskii, Leonid
Nevol`nye Zapiski

[ Notes from captivity : ]
Moscow: Parad, 2003
Language: Russian

Price: $ 18.00

This is a collection of letters and verses from the one of the most famed Moscow prisons "Matrosskaia Tishina". It is about everyday hardships of prisoners and detainees in Russian correctional facilities which still have no analogues in the civil world.

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Code: 026634
Zapiski Sluchaino Utselevshego

[ Notes of an accidental survivor : ]
: Vozvrashchenie, 2010
Language: Russian

Price: $ 32.00

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Code: 015576
Tkhorzhevskii, S.S
Otkryt` Okno: Vospominaniia i Poputnye Zapiski

[ Open window: Memoirs and notes : ]
St. Petersburg: Aleteiia, 2002
Language: Russian

Price: $ 18.00

Sergei Tkhorzhevskii was born into a family that did not accepted the soviet regime. His uncle Ivan Tkhorzhevskii, (1878-1951), was an assistant to the Russian prime-minister S.Iu. Vitte (1849-1915) and later of P.

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Code: 026057
Manevich, Galina
Tsvet Proshedshego Vremeni

[ The color of past time : ]
Moscow: AGRAF, 2010
Language: Russian

Price: $ 32.00

This is a book of memoirs by film critic Galina Manevich, the wife of the well known Russian painter Eduard Shteinberg. The book is multi-genre, it includes memoirs about her husband, Josef Brodsky, Aleksandr Galich, Evgenii Shiffers, etc, as well as her articles and essays, diaries and notes.

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Code: 001078B
Mandel`shtam, Osip
Shum Vremeni

[ The Sound of time : ]
St. Petersburg: Azbuka-klassika, 2007
Language: Russian

Price: $ 11.00

This is a collection of prose by Osip Mandelshtam (1891-1938): The Sound of Time, Feodosiia, Egypt Mark, the Fourth Prose. The second chapter include his literary criticism. The last chapter is his "Conversation with Dante": a work on the nature of poetic language.

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